46. But if in this place the Spirit be
separated from the operation of the Father and the Son, because it is
said, All things are of God, and all things are through the
Son, 1 Cor. viii. 6. then, too, when the Apostle says of
Christ, “Who is over all, God blessed for ever,” Rom. ix. 5. He set Christ not only above all
creatures, but (which it is impious to say) above the Father
also. But God forbid, for the Father is not amongst all things,
is not amongst a kind of crowd of His own creatures. The whole
creation is below, over all is the Godhead of the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Spirit. The former serves, the latter rules; the former
is subject, the latter reigns; the former is the work, the latter the
author of the work; the former, without exception, worships, the latter
is worshipped by all without exception.